🪶 Native American History

The rich, complex, and often devastating history of Indigenous peoples across North America, from ancient civilizations to the ongoing struggles for sovereignty and cultural survival.

If You Tell

by Gregg Olsen • 2019

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

3.98

360k+

📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

If You Tell

Oil made the Osage the richest people on earth. Then trusted friends began murdering them for it.

by Gregg Olsen 2019

3.98

360k+ ratings

📜 Historical True Crime 📰 Investigative Journalism 🏛️ Institutional Corruption 🔍 Murder Investigation ⚖️ Racial Exploitation

The Frontiersmen

by Allan W. Eckert • 1967

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

4.46

5k+

🏞️ Frontier History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties 🏹 Captivity Narratives

The Frontiersmen

The earth shook, the Mississippi reversed, and scattered warriors rode to one man's war.

by Allan W. Eckert 1967

4.46

5k+ ratings

🏞️ Frontier History 🔗 Pan-Indian Resistance ⚔️ Frontier Warfare 📜 Broken Treaties 🏹 Captivity Narratives

The Double Life of Pocahontas

by Jean Fritz • 1983

Kidnapped by settlers, baptized as Rebecca, dead at 21: the true story of Pocahontas.

3.46

796

🇺🇸 Colonial America 🌍 Cultural Encounter 🧱 Forced Assimilation 🏚️ Indigenous Dispossession 🎭 Propaganda And Empire

The Double Life of Pocahontas

Kidnapped by settlers, baptized as Rebecca, dead at 21: the true story of Pocahontas.

by Jean Fritz 1983

3.46

796 ratings

🇺🇸 Colonial America 🌍 Cultural Encounter 🧱 Forced Assimilation 🏚️ Indigenous Dispossession 🎭 Propaganda And Empire

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

by Kliph Nesteroff • 2021

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

4.06

3k+

🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance 📚 Indigenous Studies

We Had a Little Real Estate Problem

From Wild West exploitation to viral sketches: how Native comedians turned erasure into an art form.

by Kliph Nesteroff 2021

4.06

3k+ ratings

🎭 Comedy History ✊ Cultural Reclamation 🎬 Media Stereotypes 💪 Humor As Resistance 📚 Indigenous Studies

Not Stolen

by Jeff Fynn-Paul • 2023

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

4.13

463

🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy 🗽 Classical Liberalism

Not Stolen

Genocide, stolen land, settler colonialism: a historian says the common story gets all three wrong.

by Jeff Fynn-Paul 2023

4.13

463 ratings

🌎 Settler Colonialism 🔍 Revisionist History ⚖️ Genocide Debate 🏛️ Federal Indian Policy 🗽 Classical Liberalism

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz • 2014

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

4.37

21k+

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought 🗺️ Manifest Destiny

An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

Genocide, not liberty, built America. The counterinsurgency tactics born here now circle the globe.

by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 2014

4.37

21k+ ratings

🏚️ Settler Colonialism 📚 Revisionist History 🕯️ Genocide Studies 🌱 Decolonial Thought 🗺️ Manifest Destiny

The Last Stand

by Nathaniel Philbrick • 2010

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

4.05

12k+

🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership 🎭 Flawed Ambition

The Last Stand

Custer chased glory; Sitting Bull saw it coming. The collision and the myth it made.

by Nathaniel Philbrick 2010

4.05

12k+ ratings

🪖 Military History 🏞️ American Frontier 🛡️ Indian Wars 🎖️ Military Leadership 🎭 Flawed Ambition

Trail of Tears

by Captivating History • 2018

They won at the Supreme Court. The president defied the ruling. Then came the death march.

3.97

288

🚶 Forced Removal 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🎩 Jacksonian Era

Trail of Tears

They won at the Supreme Court. The president defied the ruling. Then came the death march.

by Captivating History 2018

3.97

288 ratings

🚶 Forced Removal 📜 Broken Treaties 🗺️ Manifest Destiny ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🎩 Jacksonian Era

Radical Hope

by Jonathan Lear • 2006

A Crow chief's dream taught him to hope for an unimaginable future, and his nation survived.

3.88

964

🎓 Virtue Ethics 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Cultural Survival 🌄 Indigenous Thought

Radical Hope

A Crow chief's dream taught him to hope for an unimaginable future, and his nation survived.

by Jonathan Lear 2006

3.88

964 ratings

🎓 Virtue Ethics 🧭 Adaptive Leadership 🧠 Moral Psychology 🌱 Cultural Survival 🌄 Indigenous Thought

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

by Jon E. Lewis • 2003

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

3.96

180

🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide ⚔️ Colonial Encounters

The Mammoth Book of Native Americans

A continent of 500 nations: the civilizations, plagues, and wars that remade Native America.

by Jon E. Lewis 2003

3.96

180 ratings

🏛️ Pre-Columbian Civilizations 🥾 Forced Removal ✊ Indigenous Resistance 🏚️ Cultural Genocide ⚔️ Colonial Encounters

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